The Longines FEI European Eventing Championships today receives a very important as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visits Blair Castle to present the medals, prompting one of the best quotes so far from the event
During the press conference at the end of cross country day, Christopher Bartle, the Yorkshire based coach of the highly successful German eventing team was asked (by a German journalist)
“If tomorrow the Queen comes to present the medals and she asks you ‘Why do you train these bloody Germans?’ what will you tell her?”
Chris, with great tact, diplomacy and a big grin on his face replied “I think I would probably remind Her Majesty that, if she looked back through her pedigree, there is quite a lot of German in it!”
